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The Origins and History of Newry's Leading Football 1 THE ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF NEWRY’S LEADING FOOTBALL CLUB---The highs and lows of THE FRONTIER CLUB since its formation in 1918—on the incredible journey from Town to City to City AFC. ===================================== To discover the true origins of Newry City AFC and the birth of association football in this Border City, it is necessary to go back to the year 1889, when a team known as Newry Wanderers was formed. The game had been introduced to the Town of Newry, a year earlier, by The East Lancashire Regiment, who were stationed in the area. The East Lancashire Regiment (Known as The Lilywhites), when based in the Newry area, had in their ranks, a colourful brilliant young football character known as Jack “Baldy” Reynolds. 2 Reynolds won fame later, as the only player ever to represent both Ireland and England at full International level. He was, without question, a footballing genius, one of the great footballing names at the time. Whilst stationed at Newry from 1886 to 1889 Reynolds had played a major role in promoting and developing the game of association football in the local district. During 1889 he helped to form Newry Wanderers FC and played the occasional game for them. Local man Peter McParland the famous ex Aston Villa FA cup winner and NI International World Cup star in his excellent book titled “Going for Goal” had this to say about the genius of Jack “Baldy” Reynolds. “Half Back Reynolds who stood only 5Ft 5Inch in his football socks was a fabulous character. He helped West Bromwich Albion beat Villa in the 1892 FA Cup Final. Then he moved to Villa in the following season and played in the 1895 and 1897 FA Cup winning sides. ---Three FA Cup winner medals ---- That’s only half the story. Earlier in Ireland, he had turned out for Distillery and for a brief spell Newry, and was capped at full International Level for Ireland. Later on it was discovered he was actually born in Blackburn England and became a regular in the England International team for five years. To top everything he left Villa to join Glasgow Celtic and won a Scottish League Championship medal” 3 Newry Wanderers were the first team formed in the Town and they enjoyed a magnificent triumph in 1891/92 by winning the Irish Junior Cup and becoming the first club to take the Cup out of Belfast. The Wanderers reached the cup final against Suffolk (Dunmurry) by defeating Dundalk, Banford, Glenavon, Donacloney, and Wesley in earlier rounds. The Final was staged on the 4th April 1892 at R.I.C. Grounds, Crumlin Road, Belfast with admission fixed at 6d. Goalscorers for The Wanderers in a great 3—2 triumph were M’Bain(2) and McCavanagh. The Newry Wanderers team == McAleese, McGuigan, HJ McConville, McCavanagh, Ferris, Goodville, McCoy, Jones, McNeill, M’Bain, Grecea. Interest in the game at local level lost a lot of momentum, over the course of the next few years, but 1904 saw a major development take place, when a Newry League comprising eight clubs began. The eight clubs were—Newry Wanderers, Newry Crusaders, Bessbrook Noble Reds, Bessbrook Celtic, Rostrevor Swifts, Newry Association, Battersea and Damolly Rovers. Trophies for the League and a Knock Out Challenge Cup were acquired from the Newry Telegraph newspaper and Newells respectively. Newry Wanderers won both trophies in that opening season with Bessbrook Celtic defeating Bessbrook Red Nobles in a test match to decide the runners up spot in the league. The League continued, for a number of years, but once again interest at local level began to wane due to World War 1 and football in the area, for a period, ceased to operate on a organised basis. 4 During the autumn of 1918, Newry Town FC was formed and immediately gained entry to a Newry and District Football League that had just been reformed. The new League was comprised of the following clubs--- Bessbrook Athletic, Newry United, Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry (Dundalk), Warrenpoint United, Royal Field Artillery(Dundalk), Warrenpoint Celtic, Dundalk Town, Damolly Juniors, and Newry Town. The Town got away to very poor start and a league table published by the Newry Reporter on Saturday 1st February 1919 shows the club isolated at the bottom gaining only one point from their opening six games. They also had suffered a very embarrassing 8—1 defeat against The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry based in Dundalk. This poor run of results, was a cause of great concern, to the Management Committee and steps were taken to strengthen the team. The steps taken, certainly improved the team and the results, so much so, that The Town won their first trophy, at the end of that first season, defeating the well established Damolly Rovers in the Newell Cup Final, after a replay. The Newry Reporter dated Thursday 22nd May 1919 carried a lengthy match report on the Final. Underneath are some extracts from that newspaper report “This important cup final was replayed at The Marshes before a huge attendance, The result of the first game was a scoreless draw. Referee Anderson had charge of the following teams ------ 5 Damolly Rovers – Jones, McCann, Kinney, Thompson, Truesdale, McKinley, Rafferty, F McCann, J Bradley, Calwell, and Bradley. Newry Town – Sweeney, Kavanagh, Coleman, Chambers, Carroll, McQuillan, Donellan, Devine, Rice, Dale and McStay. Goals from McQuillan(Pen), and a hat trick from star attacker Rice, had put The Town into a comfortable lead as the 80th minute was reached. Encouraged by the cries of “Come On The Town” from the huge crowd, Newry almost got goal number 5 from Rice but Jones cleared well. Result---- Newry Town 4 – Damolly Rovers – Nil The following season, Newry Town FC were runners up to Bessbrook Athletic in the League Championship, and quickly established itself as a major force in local football. The club showed it’s` ambitions by joining the more competitive and higher standard Portadown and District League 1st Division in 1921. The other teams comprising this League were Lurgan Distillery, Lurgan Celtic, Bessbrook, Lurgan Rangers, Edenderry Arrows, Glenavon Reserves, Portadown Olympic, Tandragee Rovers, Portadown Celtic, Sunnyside, Donacloney, Gilford Crusaders and Armagh United. 6 You often hear of the term double-jobbing, and during those early years, quite a few Newry Town players did exactly that by dividing their time with The Town and Dundalk GNR AFC (forerunner of Dundalk FC) who played in the Leinster Senior League. Names like Francis McAvoy, Hugh Tumelty, Terry O;Neill, Philip O’Neill, Willie McKeown, Robert Stanley, Thos Hamilton, and J O’Neill come to mind. After a couple of seasons in the Portadown and District League, The Town Management Committee made a momentous decision in 1923, to seek entry to The Irish Senior League. Their application to join the Senior League came before The Irish League, at a meeting of that body, held in the offices at College Street Belfast on Friday evening the 20th July 1923. The next evening Ireland’s Saturday Night Newspaper in an article reported “ That Newry Town’s application was successful and the club was admitted to the senior league.The ISN went on to report that “The Irish League meeting was chaired by Mr FW McKee (President) and in connection with the application of Newry Town, Messrs Synott, Carmody and Smyth were in attendance. They stated that a public meeting had been held and it was their intention to try and acquire The Showgrounds or to have them extended to take in the present football ground. The ground was not completely enclosed, but it was proposed 7 to have improvements made and accomodation would be provided for the players. An effort would be made to provide a stand for spectators. It would be the endeavour of the committee to turn out a team that would be capable of providing the League clubs with competitive games. The Chairman Mr FW McKee asked if there was any chance of securing the Agricultural Grounds if necessary. Mr Synott thought they could be acquired, if urgently required. They had, he said, not sufficiently good dressing accommodation at present and they could not forecast future gates. Asked re the strength of the team, the Newry deputation stated that they hoped to have a good side. If Glenavon would release Carroll and Short, these players would play for them and they would also have the assistance of the Bessbrook and Warrenpoint players. Several of the delegates present at the meeting expressed the view that the time was not opportune for the entry of a team from Newry. The distance of the ground from the centre of the town was considered to be a handicap. while some other Delegates were of the opinion that the expense involved would be a very serious matter. Mr RC Lyttle (Ards) said from the point of view of his club the expense would be ruinous. Mr Fulton (Larne) said his club would be prepared to take the risk if the city clubs did so. It was unaminously decided to admit Newry Town FC on the motion of Mr Patterson(Distillery) seconded by Mr Mehaffey(Glentoran).” 8 Newry Town’s inaugural meeting of management as a senior club was held in The White Cross Hotel in Margaret St close to the town centre. That meeting was presided over by Mr JJ Synott. The first Secretary/Manager of the new senior club was Mr Charles Smyth. Other very prominent Names on the legislative side connected with The Town in it’s early formative years were John Murphy, Joe Boden, Frank Gallagher and James Fleming. Newry,s first match in the Irish Senior League was against Larne, at The Marshes, a ground situated close to the clubs present stadium at The Showgrounds on Saturday 25th August 1923.
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